Search for dissertations about: "budgeting"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 swedish dissertations containing the word budgeting.

2. 1. The complementary use of IS technologies to support flexibility and integration needs in budgeting

   Author : Wipawee Paulsson; Institutionen för informatik; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; budgeting; enterprise resource planning system; business intelligence; spreadsheets;

   Abstract : In business controllers’ work on budgeting, considered as a classic decision-making process in organisations, it is consistently indicated that enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, business intelligence (BI) and spreadsheets are commonly applied to assist the process. An academic research contribution on this topic is few. READ MORE

4. 2. Health care budgeting : goals, structure, attitudes

   Author : Edgar Borgenhammar; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

   Abstract : What purpose do budgetary tools, such as zero-base budgeting, break-down budgeting, net budget, program budget, and multi-year budget serve? Are they methods whereby planners and administrators intend to take the initiative and increase their power at the expense of the political decision-makers? Or, inversely, are they avenues to increased political influence? This dissertation analyses, characteristic by characteristic, different budgetary aspects in health care budgeting and their action alternatives. These aspects are related to three goals; priority setting, influence on action, and administrative contol. READ MORE

5. 3. Puzzling out the choice of capital budgeting techniques : among high-growth small and medium sized firms

   Author : Zahida Sarwary; Timurs Umans; Högskolan Kristianstad; []
   Keywords : SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Capital budgeting techniques; decision making; strategic investments; theory-practice gap; practice-theory gap; SMEs; First North;

   Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to explore the drivers of practitioners’ choices of capital budgeting techniques(CBT). The mainstream literature suggests that sophisticated CBT (SCBT) will best guide organizations inevaluating important strategic investments. READ MORE

6. 4. Field Notes on Deliberative Democracy : Power and Recognition in Participatory Budgeting

   Author : Markus Holdo; Bo Bengtsson; Katrin Uba; Kristina Boreus; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Statskunskap; Political Science;

   Abstract : The theory of deliberative democracy suggests that public discourse should be guided by reasonable arguments. In real life, power relations not only obstruct free exchanges of reasons but also shape our understandings and expectations of what it means to provide reasons and to speak with authority. READ MORE

7. 5. Resource budgeting as a tool for reduced development cost for embedded real-time computer systems

   Author : Mattias Wecksten; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Real-time systems; Embedded; Resource budgeting; Design tool; Tightness optimization; Guarantees;

   Abstract : Wouldn’t it be great if there were a systematic method for derivation of non functional constraints available at design time that made it possible to verify design and make implementa tion a much clearer task? This kind of methods are needed since systems of increasing com plexity has to be developed, and the cost for failing has proven to bee too high. The problem is how to derive the design time constraints into implementation time constraints, maintaining the traceability for the individual constraints, and early on get indications whether a project is about to fail or not. READ MORE